Raised eyebrows, annoyance, snorts and sniggers. Those were the
among the most common responses to a plan by Umno President and Barisan
Nasional chairman Najib Razak to seek the help of the Malaysian Anti
Corruption Commission to vet the ruling coalition’s candidates for the
forthcoming 13th General Election.
To make it worse, there has been nothing but an ominous silence to this proposal from the most powerful man in Umno today, Najib's former boss and ex-premier Mahathir Mohamad, and with good reasons too.
![Trying to scare Dr M with the MACC? YOU MUST BE JOKING, NAJIB!]()
Mahathir's son, Mukhriz, is unlikely to make the grade given the
father’s reported US$ 44 billion in assets and the flight of US$ 200
billion in dirty money last year. In fact, few if any of the top leaders
in Umno would be able to make the grade, with the entire plan already
ridiculed by the public and tagged as an eye-wash to curry favor in a
most childish way with voters.
Trying to scare the Devil or negotiating better exit terms
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What
is Najib trying to do? As far as the general perception goes, Najib
along with Mahathir should to be among the first to be axed given the
former's humongous Scorpene corruption and Altantuya Shaariibuu murder
scandals. Can the 59-year-old Najib really be so fatuous as to believe
that by roping in the MACC, whose own integrity is in doubt, it will
make things right with voters?
Come on, voters are already sick and tired of the Umno-BN's neverending story of bribery and plundering of the national coffers especially. So what is Najib after? Is he trying to warn Mahathir and his own deputy, the also corruption-tainted Muhyiddin Yassin, to back off? Red-hot on the Umno grapevine is talk that Mahathir and Muhyiddin have struck a deal to push out Najib before GE13. Is Najib trying to signal that he won't be giving up so easily and if he has to, he will fight back?
Those who are watching the developments in Umno will know soon enough. However, given the strength of Mahathir's sinister character and Najib's weak indecisivness, few believe Najib can do much to scare Mahathir. That would be like a kitten trying to take on a wolf.
At the most, it might buy the PM and his wife Rosmah Mansor a few more months in power, allowing them to make a more advantageous and graceful exit. Instead of relinquishing the premiership before GE13 as Mahathir and Muhyiddin are said to have demanded, Najib might get to lead Umno-BN into GE13 before stepping down as Umno president at the party's internal election due to be held later in 2013.
Mahathir conducted a purge of Umno, BN candidates
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To make it worse, there has been nothing but an ominous silence to this proposal from the most powerful man in Umno today, Najib's former boss and ex-premier Mahathir Mohamad, and with good reasons too.
Mahathir's son, Mukhriz, is unlikely to make the grade given the
father’s reported US$ 44 billion in assets and the flight of US$ 200
billion in dirty money last year. In fact, few if any of the top leaders
in Umno would be able to make the grade, with the entire plan already
ridiculed by the public and tagged as an eye-wash to curry favor in a
most childish way with voters.Trying to scare the Devil or negotiating better exit terms
What
is Najib trying to do? As far as the general perception goes, Najib
along with Mahathir should to be among the first to be axed given the
former's humongous Scorpene corruption and Altantuya Shaariibuu murder
scandals. Can the 59-year-old Najib really be so fatuous as to believe
that by roping in the MACC, whose own integrity is in doubt, it will
make things right with voters?Come on, voters are already sick and tired of the Umno-BN's neverending story of bribery and plundering of the national coffers especially. So what is Najib after? Is he trying to warn Mahathir and his own deputy, the also corruption-tainted Muhyiddin Yassin, to back off? Red-hot on the Umno grapevine is talk that Mahathir and Muhyiddin have struck a deal to push out Najib before GE13. Is Najib trying to signal that he won't be giving up so easily and if he has to, he will fight back?
Those who are watching the developments in Umno will know soon enough. However, given the strength of Mahathir's sinister character and Najib's weak indecisivness, few believe Najib can do much to scare Mahathir. That would be like a kitten trying to take on a wolf.
At the most, it might buy the PM and his wife Rosmah Mansor a few more months in power, allowing them to make a more advantageous and graceful exit. Instead of relinquishing the premiership before GE13 as Mahathir and Muhyiddin are said to have demanded, Najib might get to lead Umno-BN into GE13 before stepping down as Umno president at the party's internal election due to be held later in 2013.
Mahathir conducted a purge of Umno, BN candidates